What would you plant in these pots?

[MerylSqueak]

I was given five of these pots last year. I planted pansies and geraniums in them and they were ok but I'd like to have something more permanent. The mint is just there because I needed somewhere to put it quickly.

I want to put them along a wall we have in our tiered garden. It's a bit out if reach so I need something low maintenance that doesn't need oceans of space for roots. The spot is South facing and gets quite a lot of sun although it's not full sun.

They're 32cm diameter and about 15 cm deep. I'd also like to know where I could get terracotta dishes for them. I've only been able to find plastic ones.

My first ideas are Hebe. I thought about herbs but as I said the location isn't very convenient.

What would you do with them?

I would put sedums. Sedum spectabile and matrona are both nice and will do fine in pots like that.

A fushia and some trailing lobelia. Or just begonias on their own.

Mexican fleabane. Perhaps with a specimen something in the middle - maybe a patio rose?

Why do you want dishes? They will stop drainage and the plants will get waterlogged and the roots rot.

I would suggest a rosemary in one, and several thyme plants in another. You could go the whole hog and plant herbs in all of them.

I wanted dishes to stop them drying out as the place I want to put them isn't very convenient to reach.

Thank you all for your ideas. I'm off to look at them.

Set them up with alpines which don't need a lot of water?

Or succulents like Sempervivum

That’s not a lot of soil and I’d expect it to dry out in the summer. I’d think about trailing plants that are reasonably drought tolerant. Mexican fleabane is a good call I have some Convolvulus sabatius (or mauritanicus) in deeper pots and it seems fairly tolerant of drying out and is very pretty.
Nasturtiums? I like ‘milkmaid’. Though not perennial. Pelargoniums will overwinter if you’re somewhere mild - they do here in London.

I do like the look of fleabane a lot. I am wondering if osteopermum would survive.

Sedum, thyme, succulents, so many to choose from, and they would look lovely if you then grouped all the pots together. I would not put them along the top of a wall though, passing foxes and big cats could cause some damage, also with low growing plants you need to be able to look down on them to appreciate them.

That was my worry with the low- growing suggestions but perhaps there's not enough soil for anything taller. I'm not sure where else to put them. Hmmm

Thank you for your suggestions.

Nepeta (catmint). Ideal for pots, drought tolerant, low maintenance.
I have this one in pots as it's compact and so doesn't flop over. It flowers from summer into autumn and looks very striking in bloom.

Nepeta faassenii 'Purrsian Blue'

Oo that's rather lovely

I always buy plants online and it plant them in the pots makes it easy for me to There are so many different types of sedum, and succulents to select from, and they would all look great if you arranged all the pots together. I wouldn't put them along the top of a wall, though, because passing foxes and big animals could destroy them, and you need to be able to gaze down on low-growing plants to enjoy them.